Jeff Goodell Quotes

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

How the United States chose to deal with its growing reliance on foreign oil would determine its future.

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

When it comes to fossil fuels, we're going to find more here and use less. Over time, we're going to become energy independent. I am tired of sending $300 billion overseas to buy oil from people who hate our guts. The choice between a weak economy and a strong environment is a false choice, that is not the choice I'll offer America.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

If people think we can draw a circle around North America and that we can be an independent island of energy, that's not realistic. This is a world market for oil, for refined products, and increasingly, for natural gas.

We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

America is addicted to oil which is often imported from the most unstable part of the world.

India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.

If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.

We get more oil from Canada than any country.

The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.